40s ONLY!

[Spencer]

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[Jturn112]

My thoughts exactly. They look big until about a week after they're mounted.

Factory 285 ko2's to 315 ko2's...

To 38x13.5 Milestar Patagonias

To 40x13.5 Pat's...

Hows that 2.0T running with 40s? Stock gearing? Great looking jeep. I'm envious.

 

[Headbarcode]

Hows that 2.0T running with 40s? Stock gearing? Great looking jeep. I'm envious.

The 2.0's low and mid range torque does great with the 40's. Even with the stock gearing, it still handles them fine enough to not be an annoyance during daily driver duty. And offroad, it crawls 6 and 7 rated trails with ease.

I'm trying to avoid a regear for as long as possible, because eventually I want to swap in a larger set of axles.

 

[Jturn112]

The 2.0's low and mid range torque does great with the 40's. Even with the stock gearing, it still handles them fine enough to not be an annoyance during daily driver duty. And offroad, it crawls 6 and 7 rated trails with ease.

I'm trying to avoid a regear for as long as possible, because eventually I want to swap in a larger set of axles.

I don't blame you for avoiding the regear, redundant to regear and then change axles.... just wondered how the daily was with 40s and a 2.0t, glad to hear its treating you well. I will not ask your MPG, I assume that's the wrong question and it doesn't really matter.

 

[Toycrusher]

I don't blame you for avoiding the regear, redundant to regear and then change axles.... just wondered how the daily was with 40s and a 2.0t, glad to hear its treating you well. I will not ask your MPG, I assume that's the wrong question and it doesn't really matter.

Yup, if you can drop $2-3k on a set of wheels and tires for fun, then your fuel economy doesn't REALLY matter now does it? ?

 

[Jturn112]

Yup, if you can drop $2-3k on a set of wheels and tires for fun, then your fuel economy doesn't REALLY matter now does it? ?

Call it whatever, morbid curiosity, participating in my own abuse. no good reason for me to calculate mine, but I do. My brothers 1996 TJ (maybe 97) with 37s got around 11 on the highway on a good day and as long as I'm above that i feel like I'm winning.

 

[Headbarcode]

I don't blame you for avoiding the regear, redundant to regear and then change axles.... just wondered how the daily was with 40s and a 2.0t, glad to hear its treating you well. I will not ask your MPG, I assume that's the wrong question and it doesn't really matter.

I'm a full disclosure type of guy, so I don't mind sharing. I've never been inclined enough to hand calculate, but the Jeep says I'm averaging 17.9 mpg. That's with over 90% stop and go miles. On a recent road trip to Tennessee, I was seeing as high as about 22 mpg. That was loaded out with my wife and 3+ weeks of gear and baggage, and acc set to 80 mph.

 

[Jturn112]

I'm a full disclosure type of guy, so I don't mind sharing. I've never been inclined enough to hand calculate, but the Jeep says I'm averaging 17.9 mpg. That's with over 90% stop and go miles. On a recent road trip to Tennessee, I was seeing as high as about 22 mpg. That was loaded out with my wife and 3+ weeks of gear and baggage, and acc set to 80 mph.

thats not bad at all. 40s. good size lift. 4 cyl turbo. Hard to get that in any other vehicle i can think of.

 

[drtrdr85]

Hello all just joined the 40s club.

 

[C.Sco]

Hello all just joined the 40s club.

Pretty sure I saw your jeep in person a week or two ago, looks great!

 

[Infidel09]

lets see em 40's ONLY!

21’ Hemi e85, 3.5” lift- 40s

 

[gek]

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[3TV]

I didn't have 40s almost 3 years ago when this thread died. I do now, so here you go.

 

[wibornz]

It looks good on 40s. But I find very little real need for 40s. I use the 40s for around town and mall crawling. Very rare do I wheel with them. The hit on mileage and the extra wear and tear that 40s do to the Jeep see no real benefit on 95% of the trails out there when running 37s.

Yet is does look cool on 40s. My jeep on 40s get about the same mileage as my Jeep on 37s pulling a 3200 camper.

 

[Soapy]

A friend of mine put 30s on his Bronco Raptor. He had to have the look but said it drove like crap after putting them on.

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